Could it be that John McCain, the 'maverick', has been corrupted again? It certainly happened in the Keating Five scandal, for which McCain has called the his "biggest mistake".
But now the oil lobby has taken over his campaign - and Joe Romm writes about how this has turned the long, lost maverick into just another Republican oil shill.
The biggest consequence of the oil industry takeover of McCain's campaign is that he has basically walked away from any commitment he had toward constraining greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels.
From Romm:
What does the access get Big Oil? Let's see. McCain has almost completely walked away from the climate issue (see "Turns out McCain doesn't care about global warming").
And John McCain, the maverick, wanted to deal with it in the past through a cap-and-trade, but......for now, it's DRILL BABY DRILL.
The climate change problem is bad, and growing worse. The next President may have the last chance to stop the path our nation is careening down to exacerbate our emissions problems by pursing the dirtiest fuels on Earth - otherwise known as the "Greenhouse Three".
THE GREENHOUSE THREE
COAL-TO-LIQUIDS
OIL SHALE
TAR SANDS
But McCain supports each and every one of these calamitous endeavours.
The McCain Trainwreck is nothing more than an extension of all of the worst of Republican influence. Palin, Keating, Exxon, McCain..... oh what a thing of slime to behold.